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PLATE -CCXCVII. 
PHALANA TRIPLACIA. 
SPECTACLE Morn. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 
_atreft. Fly by night. ! 
* * Noftua. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed; firft pair greyifh, with a double 
ferruginous arch; at the bafe, and another in an oppofite direction 
near the apex. _ 
PHAL&ZNA TRIPLACIA: Critata alis deflexis; anticis arcu duplici 
contrario maculifque tribus glaucis intermediis. Lina. 
Syft. Nat. 2.854. 175-—fn. Sv. 1202. 
| Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2- 117+ 354+ 
Degeer. Inf. i. tab. 6, fig. 20. 21. 
Merian. Europ. tab. 97. 
This Infe& is remarkable for a fanciful kind of marking that 
encircles the eyes, and feems to refemble a pair of fpeétacles. It 
is found in the winged ftate the fourth week in June. 
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